Journal Articles – Michael J. Lorr //podcastplus.net/feed/podcast~3235bd782832e1e61c360a81b1a291e3c094281b37a71a110644b5ce4ce11f03 Towards a Public Sociology Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:13:31 +0000 Revisiting the Adolescent Society in the late 1990s and early 2000s https://michaeljlorr.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/5.jpg This is the link to my first published article as a co-author. This paper revisits James Coleman’s The Adolescent Society by using data from 7 schools in the Chicago metropolitan area. Studying school cliques and cultures is a window through which my current sociology students start to understand the constructed nature of society and the... Continue Reading → Thu, 07 May 2020 22:19:49 +0000 https://michaeljlorr.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/5.jpg Revisiting the Adolescent Society in the late 1990s and early 2000s https://michaeljlorr.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/5.jpg This is the link to my first published article as a co-author. This paper revisits James Coleman’s The Adolescent Society by using data from 7 schools in the Chicago metropolitan area. Studying school cliques and cultures is a window through which my current sociology students start to understand the constructed nature of society and the... Continue Reading → Thu, 07 May 2020 22:19:49 +0000 https://michaeljlorr.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/5.jpg Sociology as a tool to teach Community Leadership https://michaeljlorr.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/cover.gif In this article I address how sociology as a discipline does and does not teach leadership to its students. A highlight of this article for me is my explanation of how students used a novel curriculum on community leadership (a program within the department of sociology which I direct) to lend their experiences with social... Continue Reading → Thu, 07 May 2020 21:43:30 +0000 https://michaeljlorr.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/cover.gif Sociology as a tool to teach Community Leadership https://michaeljlorr.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cover.gif In this article I address how sociology as a discipline does and does not teach leadership to its students. A highlight of this article for me is my explanation of how students used a novel curriculum on community leadership (a program within the department of sociology which I direct) to lend their experiences with social... Continue Reading → Thu, 07 May 2020 21:43:30 +0000 https://michaeljlorr.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cover.gif Hardcore punk as used in collective identity formation https://michaeljlorr.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/wjctmikeinterview.mp3 Melissa Ross, host of “First Coast Connect” on WJCT community supported public radio in Jacksonville, FL, interviewed me about a recent article I co-authored where we dive into hardcore punk as a technology of the collective. I have also linked to the article in the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0891241612465652 Mon, 18 Jun 2018 21:56:33 +0000 https://michaeljlorr.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/wjctmikeinterview.mp3 Hardcore punk as used in collective identity formation https://michaeljlorr.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/wjctmikeinterview.mp3 Melissa Ross, host of “First Coast Connect” on WJCT community supported public radio in Jacksonville, FL, interviewed me about a recent article I co-authored where we dive into hardcore punk as a technology of the collective. I have also linked to the article in the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0891241612465652 Mon, 18 Jun 2018 21:56:33 +0000 https://michaeljlorr.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/wjctmikeinterview.mp3 Defining Urban Sustainability in the Context of North American Cities https://michaeljlorr.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/full-nature-and-culture_cover.jpg This literature review was inspired by my Ph.D. research about urban sustainability in the context of North American cities. https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/nature-and-culture/7/1/nature-and-culture.7.issue-1.xml Fri, 02 Mar 2018 10:56:31 +0000 https://michaeljlorr.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/full-nature-and-culture_cover.jpg Defining Urban Sustainability in the Context of North American Cities https://michaeljlorr.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/full-nature-and-culture_cover.jpg This literature review was inspired by my Ph.D. research about urban sustainability in the context of North American cities. https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/nature-and-culture/7/1/nature-and-culture.7.issue-1.xml Fri, 02 Mar 2018 10:56:31 +0000 https://michaeljlorr.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/full-nature-and-culture_cover.jpg